Syncthing is my answer though I appreciate it doesn’t get to the root of your question.

There are local backups that include your system settings, text messages, contacts, call history and (optionally) apps. The one thing I want is the ability to pick a directory for the local backup so I can make it work with syncthing without jumping through hoops.

It’s also compatible with Nextcloud and WebDAV if those are options for you.

I miss my pixel 5 :(

Chiming in to note that GNSS communications are actually receive only. A typical phone can’t physically broadcast a strong enough signal into mid-earth orbit (where most of those satellites typically are) to achieve the “pinging GPS satellites” issue.

Note this only refers to how that signal physically hits your phone. Once your position is deduced and digitized there’s an entirely different attack surface.

The other concerns (especially cell tower data tracking) are valid though.

Avoid AMD? Why do you say that?

I use my Framework 13 (Intel 12th gen) for some heavy CPU workloads and it’s been a champ! For the balance of quality, performance, cost, and repairability I really don’t think it can be beat.

You beat me to it! I have the same setup. Did you have any issues with the 39->40 update? It broke my icons in plasma

My solution is to use Rathole. I rent a wildly cheap (2 core, 4GB memory) VPS and basically just run Traefik there. Then I use Rathole to make some services hosted on my desktop available to Traefik.

I like this solution better than Wireguard for my application. It reduces attack surface to services you’ve explicitly set up, rather than a full data layer trunk between your machine and a potential malicious actor.

Ooh, I’ll definitely check out Voice!

I’m more of a desktop Jellyfin container person myself, but all roads lead to Rome in this case :) thanks for the input!

Does anyone know of a good alternative for Android?

Right now I just use Antennapod, but it would be nice to get chapters and whatnot built in.

Agreed. That said, with a few remotes and a cron job git could facilitate “duct tape and zip ties” federation.

My $0.02:

NixOS is excellent, and actually pretty easy if you’re not trying to do anything fancy (running all services under a single user, etc.). Personally this is my pick because I primarily host services for myself, so down time in exchange for learning a new thing is acceptable.

As I mentioned elsewhere, Debian + Incus is a great minimal and rock solid solution for longer standing services. Although, it’s not composeable :(

More directly to your preferences, I would also recommend considering Rocky. Being in the RHEL ecosystem has its perks (especially with rootless support for podman and podman-compose). I’m also generally a fan of SELinux. Rocky is a little less bleeding edge than Fedora with many of the same conveniences and recent packages. In my mind, for my purposes, that makes it a better choice than Fedora for a server OS.

Good bot

I tend to not use the webui, so I prefer the similarly useful combination of Debian + Incus (spawned from the LXC project).

Sure, HA isn’t baked into Incus (to my knowledge) but similar to OP I only have one physical box and don’t necessarily care to manage multiple.

That being said, Proxmox is a good solution in the scheme of things and generally a good recommendation.

Hm, so it’s encrypted from your beeper client to the bridge, decrypted, then re-encrypted with the outgoing platform’s protocol. Seems like a good reason to host your own bridge, and a good call on it being a glaring attack surface.

Seems like the secret sauce is in how they deal with messaging platform integrations? Maybe the goal is to avoid another iMessage lawsuit. With Beeper as a proof of concept it would be cool to start adding integrations in a fully open source way (legality permitting)

That’s a cool solution! I’d be interested in making a nix flake to do something similar to that Ansible project. Thanks for linking!!

Agreed! I’m pretty psyched about their transparency and the overall model. Especially in the universe where this Apple lawsuit results in Beeper being allowed to connect to iMessage again.

Would love to hear any results you find with hosting! I’ll give it a try too and maybe do a follow on post with what I learn.

I’m an old man when it comes to major changes. If it’s salvageable then maybe stick with what you’ve got. Have you used lazy docker or watchtower?

Lazy docker should give you a more reliable interface (TUI, over ssh, not a GUI)

Watchtower (aims to) update your containers for you so you don’t have to go through this pain in the first place :)

Personally, I run my Nextcloud and Jellyfin servers on NixOS with auto updates on. It’s been chugging along great!

I agree gluetun is de way 😂 unfortunately my CPU is nowhere near 100%

Using gluetun to connect my containers to Mullvad I’m getting 60+% of my bare network speeds.

Another option that doesn’t achieve that performance is torproxy which can achieve a similar result.

Using gluetun to connect my containers to Mullvad I’m getting 60+% of my bare network speeds.

Another option that doesn’t achieve that performance is torproxy which can achieve a similar result.